When I Meet You
10: Pretended Girlfriend?
Naya's heart race, not at all beating normally—kala Kaivan looked at her with an intense gaze. The girl blinked her eyes, folding her lips inwards to overcome the nervousness.
"Father! That's not a good dress for Mama Naya?" A cry from Nayra, finally made Kaivan wake up and turn to his daughter.
"Nayra said what, honey?" Kaivan lost focus. Damnit damnit! Found that Naya is very beautiful with a dress wrapped in flowers motifs, making Kaivan amazed by the appearance of his nanny.
"The clothes that Mama Naya wears are good?" Nayra repeated her question again.
Kaivan turned his head back, where Naya's figure was still standing gracefully. Kaivan glanced at Naya from head to toe, the flower dress chosen by Nayra did look fitting with Naya's skin as white as milk.
"Good," said Kaivan, turning to Nayra again. Suddenly, Nayra also screamed with excitement because the choice was so suitable for Naya.
When Naya and Nayra return to the dressing room, Kaivan is stunned by Naya's shadow when she wears a dress—. If Naya slightly changed her appearance, she is not at all visible if she works as a caregiver.
On the sidelines of Kaivan judging Naya's appearance from head to toe, suddenly the 30-year-old man grinned.
Apparently, he knew a great way to get his parents to shut up and stop setting him up with the son of his papa colleague.
"Mom! Please choose the best women's clothes in this store yes, I'm waiting!" When a waiter is seen tidying up his clothes, Kaivan tells him to find the best clothes in the store.
Not long after, Naya goes out with Nayra. The two women of different ages looked exactly like a mother and child.
"Papa, let's pay for the shirt." Nayra pulled Kaivan's arm towards the cashier.
"Wait a minute! The clothes that Mama Naya wants to buy seem less, so Papa wants to buy more clothes that are good for Mama Naya." If Nayra comes back jumping up and down because she's happy, but not with Naya. The 25-year-old woman grimaced softly, why is her employer suddenly overreacting?
"No need, sir! These three clothes are already expensive, I can not afford if my salary later cut." Kaivan was made to laugh when he heard Naya's words, Naya's thoughts were overstated on him.
"Who wants to cut your salary? I won't cut it. In fact I will add facilities for you, but—I ask for your help."
"Help?" Naya's forehead is wrinkled deep. "What help?"
"I'll explain later if it's at home. Now, let's pay for the clothes."
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Along the way, Naya keeps thinking about the help that Kaivan meant. I don't know what was on the man's mind, to the point of buying him a lot of expensive clothes like this.
At the same time, Naya never had a shirt that cost almost the same as the village head's cell phone which she said could be used as a TV remote.
When she reached the apartment, Naya spread her arms to confront Kaivan.
"Clearly now what help you mean, because I think of it," Naya honestly made Kaivan shake her head.
"Nayra, Papa and Mama Naya want to talk for a while. Nayra went to play first in the room huh," Kaivan asked Nayra.
After the death of Nayra, now in the family room there are only Kaivan and Naya. Both of them sat in the same chair, at a distance apart.
"I don't mean not to sincerely give you those clothes, but I am currently in need of your help, Naya." Kaivan started the conversation.
"What help, sir? But please, don't trouble me."
Kaivan shook his head. "The help I'm talking about isn't hard, you just need to follow my orders."
"For the past 5 years, more precisely after the departure of my ex-wife and biological mother from Nayra. I have always been encouraged to remarry by my parents. And in the evening tomorrow, my parents will have dinner. Which is where the dinner, intended for me to get to know more closely the women who have been chosen by them. I don't want to get married again, but I still need time. Moreover, the woman my parents always chose was the one who was far from my ideal type." Kaivan seemed to pause his sentence, he glanced at Naya's silent presence with her hands clutched over her thighs.
"I ask for your help voluntarily, if you mind—I won't force." In the second after Kaivan said that, Naya turned her head to look at Kaivan.
"I'm ready, sir. So, what should I do?"
"Become my pretend boyfriend." In that second also Naya gaped wide, with a heartbeat that was already crazy in there. Pretended boyfriend? Meaning how? Why was she suddenly told to be the pretend boyfriend of her own employer?
"W-what? P-boyfriend pretend?" naya asked nervously, she went back to making sure. Worried if his ears hear wrong.
"Yes, being my pretend boyfriend to silence both my parents. I just want them to stop setting me up with the women of their choice. That's it, Naya."
"But, Sir? What if I get caught pretending? I just don't want to complicate my life in the future" Naya said.
"No, tomorrow I'll take you to the salon to make over you, so that my parents don't recognize you as Nayra's nanny."
"What tricks can that guarantee?" Naya is worried, worried that she is getting bad judgment from Nayra's grandmother and grandfather.
"No, I'll be in charge of everything. Even if they know you're Nayra's nanny, I'll explain to them. For now, I just silenced them to stop setting me up. And the way to get them to stop is with me having a lover" Kaivan explained.
"Don't you have a lover?" ask Naya suddenly. Seeing Kaivan looking at him sharply, Naya moved her hand in the air.
"Sorry, Sir. I don't mean to mock you for not having a lover. Yes, despite the fact that it is a single father." Naya hid her laughter by biting her lips.
"But how can you, you don't have a lover?" ask Naya again who started kepo.
"You can't misjudge me, the women out there are lining up to be my lover. I just ...," Naya looked at Kaivan, waiting for the man to continue his words.
"Just can't move on, right, sir?" ledek Naya with a smile at the end of her sentence.
"No! You know it!" Kaivan threw his face in any direction.
"A Kaivan Pradipta turns out to be gamon, ck ck ck." As Naya teases Kaivan, she suddenly forgets that Kaivan is her own master.